ACTION PLAN FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION POLICY

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ACTION PLAN FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION POLICY

• Skopje 2007

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THE ACTION PLAN FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION
ACTIVITIES MADE BY ROMANIA IN 2006-2007

• Camelia Parvan

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The National Action Program for Health and
Environment

• THE ACTION PLAN FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION
• Surveillance of health status and dietary habits
  of the population
• Monitoring program regarding the quality of the
  most used foods in peoples nutrition milk and
  milk products, meat and meat products, bread and
  soft drinks
• Nutritional education of professionals and common
  people
• Support and training for food producers
• New food legislation harmonized with the EU
  regulations
• Communication with mass media regarding nutrition
  of peoples
• Elimination of IDD salt iodations
• Elimination of IDA addition in flour of Iron
  and folic acid
• Surveillance of food borne diseases (the WHO
  Surveillance Programme for Control of Food borne
  diseases )
• Research and development .

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Surveillance of health status and dietary habits
of the population.

• In the National Program of health for women and
  children we have the subprogram of Vulnerable
  Population Groups Nutrition infant babies and
  children under the age of 12 years , teen-agers ,
  pregnant and feeding women and third-aged
  population . In this sub program a Guide for
  nutrition of baby and pregnant women have been
  created.
• In order to apply the new WHO standard on growth
  monitoring and development of children it was
  organized one meeting between professionals in
  the counties Public Health Authorities ,
  coordinated by Institute of Public Health who is
  the national leader of the Monitoring Program .
• There is a National Program for Health Promotion
  with two subprograms
• - discovering obesity and the risk for obesity in
  children,
• measures of prevention of obesity in children .

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World days 2007

• World Food Day World Osteoporosis Day
• press conference
• free health preventive analyses for population
  biochemical analysis, blood
• pressure measurements
• free medical checks for prevention of
  osteoporosis
• printed materials and web www.info-sanatate.ro

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New food legislation.

• Legislation was made in collaboration with
  ministries and food industry for the accurate
  adaptation of all the regulation to protect and
  influence the public health in the nutrition
  domains
• Regulation 1924/2006 on nutritional and health
  claims made on food ,
• Regulation 1925/2006 regarding addition of
  vitamins , minerals and other substances to food,
  
• Promotion of healthy diet in schools project of
  legislation under discussion

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Monitoring program regarding the quality of the
most used foods in peoples nutrition

• The Public Health counties Authorities collect
  and analyze more than 2000 samples of different
  type of food on the market - milk and milk
  products, meat and meat products, bread and soft
  drinks.

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Nutritional education of professionals and common
people

• workshop on implementation of the Regulation
  1924/2006 on nutritional and health claims made
  on food and Regulation 1925/2006 regarding
  addition of vitamins , minerals and other
  substances to food with more than 70 participants
  representing of the Public Health counties
  Authorities and food businesses in October 2007
• participation to the workshop of Healthy Food
  Foundation in October 2007
• creation of National Nutrition Society (
  professionals association ) in 2006
• identifying the needs for training for
  professionals in nutrition and collaboration with
  EUROFIR

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Elimination of Micronutrient deficiencies IDD and
IDA

• renew the legislation for universal iodization
  of salt
• seminar for training of the personnel who
  analyzes iodinated salt in the laboratories, in
  order to have a standardized method .
• 2 workshops Project for addition of Iron and
  folic acid in flour
• Project of legislation for addition of Iron and
  folic acid in flour

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Surveillance of food borne diseases (the WHO
Surveillance Programmefor Control of Food borne
diseases )

• Produce the National evaluation Report of
  food-borne diseases
• Actions to reduce the incidence of food borne
  diseases
• - introducing the HACCP system in the food chain
  ,
• - hygiene guides for food industries ,
• - hygiene education of consumers .

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Support and training for food producers

• Workshop on implementation of the Regulation
  1924/2006 on nutritional and health claims made
  on food and Regulation 1925/2006 regarding
  addition of vitamins , minerals and other
  substances to food - October 2007

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Research and development

• International projects
• Partner in CIVRES ( Interlinking Civil Society
  Organization and Research through Education ) FP6
  
• Partnership in the European Technology Platform
  on Food for Life including research and
  educational institutions , food industries and
  public health institutions .
• Partner in ERASMUS intensive program Food
  Health (PhD fellows on food and nutrition )

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Communication with mass media regarding nutrition
of peoples

• Materials for mass-media for promotion of
• A healthy life style
• www.viatasanatoasa.ro

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Activities for 2008-2010

• Improving regulation (e.g. health claims,
  nutrition labelling)
• Facilitation and exchange of information between
  countries (Nutrition and Physical Activity
  Network)
• Projects funded as part of the Public Health and
  Research Programmes
• Collaboration with international efforts (WHO
  Ministerial in Istanbul and the European Charter
  on Obesity)
• Links to initiatives from other policies
• Developing partnerships (EU Platform on Diet,
  Physical Activity and Health)